Joshua Fousthttp://joshuafoust.com
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3232JoshuaFousthttps://feedburner.google.comAmerica Is a Cyberpunk Dystopiahttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoshuaFoust/~3/OP8T6_HtG6Q/
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:43:33 +0000http://joshuafoust.com/?p=2070The women targeted by GamerGate have finally come out with their books about the horror — and it makes for harrowing reading. Zoë Quinn, whose ex-boyfriend started the entire mess, is remarkably sanguine about the never-ending death threats. “It barely even registers when it happens anymore because I’m used to it now” Her experiences, especially...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JoshuaFoust/~4/OP8T6_HtG6Q" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://joshuafoust.com/america-is-a-cyberpunk-dystopia/Dirty Underwear, and Other Practical Considerations in Spacehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoshuaFoust/~3/_fgiIuTxURs/
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 21:03:59 +0000http://joshuafoust.com/?p=2062Space colonies are cool: they are a staple of our popular culture, our literature, even our political science. And it seems like everyone these days wants to build one, from national governments to international consortia to billionaires with a savior complex. But the messy reality of actually living in one of these places is something...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JoshuaFoust/~4/_fgiIuTxURs" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://joshuafoust.com/dirty-underwear-and-other-practical-considerations-in-space/On Reclosetinghttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoshuaFoust/~3/ltpoMu3428M/
Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:47:32 +0000http://joshuafoust.com/?p=2040Note: this post has been republished on&#160;Mic.com. One of the most hopeful things I have seen in past year came from Orrin Hatch, the Republican Senator from Utah, who had a strong reaction to President Trump’s surprise announcement of a ban on trans Americans serving in the military. In a statement last week, he said,...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JoshuaFoust/~4/ltpoMu3428M" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://joshuafoust.com/on-recloseting/The Trump Ban on Trans Military Servicehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoshuaFoust/~3/Ccp0x8LBfxU/
http://joshuafoust.com/the-trump-ban-trans-mil/#commentsWed, 26 Jul 2017 14:34:11 +0000http://joshuafoust.com/?p=2031In what is surely a first, President Trump issued an order to the military via Twitter: “After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Our military must...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JoshuaFoust/~4/Ccp0x8LBfxU" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://joshuafoust.com/the-trump-ban-trans-mil/feed/1http://joshuafoust.com/the-trump-ban-trans-mil/Fully Automated Gay Space Communism Is the Future of Humanityhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoshuaFoust/~3/VDpj6RHbZos/
Sun, 23 Jul 2017 23:04:37 +0000http://joshuafoust.com/?p=2024This past week, at the International Space Station R&#38;D conference in Washington, DC, Elon Musk dramatically downsized his vision for colonizing Mars. Musk explained that Red Dragon was no longer in line with the evolving vision SpaceX has for getting to Mars—specifically, the part where you have to land on Mars. The company is hitting...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JoshuaFoust/~4/VDpj6RHbZos" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://joshuafoust.com/fully-automated-gay-space-communism-is-the-future-of-humanity/This “Rodenberry Rule” Nonsensehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoshuaFoust/~3/J5yPqDVpm5A/
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:38:37 +0000http://joshuafoust.com/?p=2019There is a lot of hype going around about CBS’s new Star Trek show, Discovery —&#160;I suspect to distract from the deeply unappealing decision to make it exclusive to their paid streaming service, and thus not a part of their normal network line up (hooray, getting fans to pay $9/mo for a TV show). The...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JoshuaFoust/~4/J5yPqDVpm5A" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://joshuafoust.com/this-rodenberry-rule-nonsense/When Boredom Is A Great Thinghttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoshuaFoust/~3/ExTFZnG7Bxc/
http://joshuafoust.com/when-boredom-is-a-great-thing/#commentsTue, 23 May 2017 19:43:54 +0000http://joshuafoust.com/?p=2007It was about the third week of teaching English, when I was fighting off a mild case of food poisoning, desperately drinking an orange Fanta (my first taste of soda made from sugar, rather than corn) to settle my stomach while sitting at a Turkish café to eat the same meat-filled fried pastry I’d had...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JoshuaFoust/~4/ExTFZnG7Bxc" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://joshuafoust.com/when-boredom-is-a-great-thing/feed/1http://joshuafoust.com/when-boredom-is-a-great-thing/Why Would You Want to Die on Mars?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoshuaFoust/~3/PrUcN7In940/
Mon, 03 Apr 2017 18:59:10 +0000http://joshuafoust.com/?p=1979SpaceX just hit an impressive new milestone with its latest rocket launch. Last week, the company launched a satellite into orbit and successfully landed its big first stage on a drone barge in the Atlantic ocean — itself an impressive feat that now has the comforting feeling of routineness. But the rocket was mostly reused...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JoshuaFoust/~4/PrUcN7In940" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://joshuafoust.com/why-would-you-want-to-die-on-mars/A Collapse of Privacyhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoshuaFoust/~3/kt8ZSVG2jag/
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:35:23 +0000http://joshuafoust.com/?p=1992I wrote a piece for Quartz, about how the changing roles and norms of privacy created unexpected fault lines in our politics: The early promise of the internet was that someone would not need to be best friends with their physical neighbors in order to be part of a community. And indeed, for marginalized people...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JoshuaFoust/~4/kt8ZSVG2jag" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://joshuafoust.com/a-collapse-of-privacy/The Fight for Gay Rights Is Not Overhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoshuaFoust/~3/PruuORaIKUk/
Fri, 27 Jan 2017 15:26:14 +0000http://joshuafoust.com/?p=1851When the Supreme Court ruled in&#160;Obergefell v. Hodges&#160;that marriage is a fundamental right for LGBT Americans, many pundits expressed relief that the battle for gay rights was, essentially, over. This was an obvious fiction — in 28 states, employers have the right to summarily terminate an employee because of their sexual identity — but nevertheless,...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JoshuaFoust/~4/PruuORaIKUk" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://joshuafoust.com/the-fight-for-gay-rights-is-not-over/